On July 26 the Roman Catholic Church commemorates the parents of the Virgin Mary, Saints Joachim and Anne. The couple's faith and perseverance brought them through the sorrow of childlessness, to the ...

Ss. Joachim and Anne is a Catholic, Christ-centered School founded in 1924 in Queens Village, N.Y. by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur to provide a Christ-centered learning place which fosters ...

PRINCETON – Anne Marie Joachim aka “Mommy George” 84, departed this world on Saturday, November 12, 2011, at 6:50 p.m. at the University Medical Center of Princeton. She was born on Nov. 18, 1926, in ...

Many couples today face childlessness and infertility, but they are far from the first. Sts. Anne and Joachim, whose feast day is July 26, are known as the grandparents of Jesus and the parents of ...

Grandparents, do you find yourselves worrying about your grandchildren? With the increasing frequency of grown children and their families moving out of state, more and more grandparents are finding ...

FARGO - Sts. Anne and Joachim Catholic Church, 5202 25th St. S., hosts its annual Fall Festival from 6 to 10 p.m. Oct. 15 and noon to 4 p.m. on Oct. 16. First-day events include a street dance with ...

“She may be little, but she ain’t small,” my 4’11” mother would sometimes observe — as she shuddered at her own use of the grammatical faux pas. She might well have been describing her colleague and ...

Garvey Manor administrator Sister Joachim Anne Ferenchak, of the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm, entered religious life in 1967. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski In Youngstown, Ohio, a ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pennsylvania — In Youngstown, Ohio, a large portrait of St. Therese of Lisieux, a French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun, hung in the bedroom of Joseph and Mary Tokasz Ferenchak. Today ...